Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’d love to get your input on our Customer Success Organization.”. It’s so encouraging to see CEOs leaning into Customer Success. Inevitably, CEOs and leaders have the following common questions around how a Customer Success Organization should look: What should my Customer Success strategy be?

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

Welcome back to our Customer Success leader spotlight series, where we get candid with the leaders behind today’s most customer-centric organizations about their career stories, takes on the industry, and lessons learned along the way. . Chief Strategy and Customer Officer Mary Poppen. Get to know involve.ai

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ChurnZero

MAY 24, 2022

Welcome back to our Customer Success leader spotlight series, where we get candid with the leaders behind today’s most customer-centric organizations about their career stories, takes on the industry, and lessons learned along the way. . Chief Strategy and Customer Officer Mary Poppen. Get to know involve.ai

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Apple and IBM Peanut butter and jelly Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg Marketing and Customer Success They are all unexpected — yet incredibly successful — partnerships. On the other hand, the CCO focuses on what happens after the sale, overseeing onboarding, customer support, driving retention, and minimizing churn.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success managers who do it all.

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What your Customer Success team looks like will largely depend on your organization’s size, solution complexity, and go-to-market strategy. If you’re standing up a Customer Success function for the first time, you may only have one or a handful of Customer Success Managers who do it all.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 30, 2020

What’s Next For Customer Success? No one knows what the future holds (as 2020 has made abundantly clear) but that didn’t stop us from asking top SaaS CEOs what’s next for Customer Success. To clarify, Olson said he was referring to the more monotonous and mundane aspects of a CSM’s onboarding responsibilities. “We’ve

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I hosted a panel on “How to Take Customer Success from Idea to Action” with three incredible customer success leaders: Ashley Fryar (VP of Customer Success at NAVEX Global), Bernie Kassar (Chief Customer Officer at Xactly), and Mary Poppen (Chief Customer Officer at Glint).

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, to reprieve our collective cry for clarity, we asked industry experts to give their best predictions on the future of Customer Success. So, without further ado, here’s what our Customer Success experts had to say: You Mon Tsang , CEO, ChurnZero. Greg Saiz , VP of Customer Success, Betterworks.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In order to achieve step-change growth, you need to deliver value to your customers at scale—and across their entire journey with your company. That’s the question that Sumo Logic Chief Customer Officer Dione Hedgpeth and Totango President & COO Jamie Bertasi discussed during their session at the TSIA World: ENVISION conference.

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Amity

APRIL 7, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. This often means your customer success team’s impact on the company’s growth.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations System to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might also need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. This means your customer success team’s impact on the company’s growth.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There has never been a better time to be a public software company. I’ve met nearly every private and public cloud company of any material size and put together this list of questions based upon those conversations. Many have observed that NDR is the most important metric in the long-term health of a SaaS company. 4 quarters)?

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SmartKarrot

JULY 15, 2022

Therefore, as our current business landscape continues to evolve, customer journey mapping processes are now more crucial than ever before. Recent studies have shown that customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that aren’t. Clarabridge.

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CSM Practice

APRIL 17, 2017

You might need additional funds to purchase a Customer Success Operations system to automate playbooks and avoid unnecessary manual work. You might need additional funds approved to hire additional Customer Success managers. Ideally, you should demonstrate the value in a way that ties with the company’s overall goals.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Data tell a story in customer success. . They can even tell you when a customer is optimally ready for expansions, upsells, and cross-sells. Data provides the trigger for your Customer Success organization to execute on those opportunity. This data is a good sign of customer success and where it’s going. .

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Gainsight

AUGUST 30, 2022

We suffered through far too many of my dad jokes and Taylor Swift references. When Customer Success, Product, and Community come together to create Pulse, the support for each other is tangible – and because of that, we are unstoppable. And our time together at the Moscone Center proved that again ten times over.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Higher costs to serve: customer service, returned materials, remedies, etc. More expense to retain customers: loyalty incentives, customer success, etc. They are obsessively consistent about how each organization’s thinking and decisions must align to customers’ well-being.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher. . Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit.

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ChurnZero

JULY 2, 2021

SaaS companies must be cognizant of and weigh the implications brought about by a sole focus on these metrics when assessing the performance of and building strategies for Customer Success. GRR also tends to decline as companies grow. Over time, your customer base becomes more diverse and has more opportunities to churn.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Long-standing wisdom in business says when the economy looks shaky, or worse turns south, savvy companies redouble their focus on existing customers. There are two primary reasons why: First, you need to retain customers to simply “keep the lights on” so to speak. The customer lifecycle is straightforward.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Long-standing wisdom in business says when the economy looks shaky, or worse turns south, savvy companies redouble their focus on existing customers. There are two primary reasons why: First, you need to retain customers to simply “keep the lights on” so to speak. The customer lifecycle is straightforward.

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CSM Practice

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For some companies, they take customer journey mapping at a basic level to the point that it doesn’t encapsulate the maximum value that you can get out of this exercise. There are even companies with customer success teams but don’t have customer journey maps which can be considered as a loophole.

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Amity

JANUARY 30, 2014

Is 2014 the year of Customer Success? Instead of asking the magic 8-Ball oracle, we turned to 8 exceptional customer success professionals and asked them to share their insights on the future of the industry. It is abundantly clear that the future is very bright for customer success!

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2021

If you are a customer success leader who’s being forced to use a sales tool that wasn’t built for you in the first place, we get you. Leaders in a C-suite are uniquely positioned to further company-wide policies and strategies. how to sell your customer success tool to them. Reinvent customer relationships.

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ClientSuccess

JULY 23, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I frequently hear from customer success and sales leaders that two of the most common reasons for churn or downsell (revenue compression) are executive/sponsor change and lack of perceived value (for your product/service). Identify the sponsor or “buddy” from your company that maps one-to-one to these key personas.

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ClientSuccess

MAY 15, 2019

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful.

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 25, 2015

She expects more from the companies she works with and won’t accept anything less than excellent customer service. Modern companies must adapt to this shift in customer attitudes by developing and iterating upon their customer success strategies. This concept as a distinct goal within companies is recent.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Here are 10 articles and webinars that focus on the foundational aspects of customer retention and best practices to create a best-in-class customer retention strategy. What is Customer Retention? Customer retention refers to the strategies used to keep customers from spending their money elsewhere.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 7, 2020

Customer success departments have different structures in different companies. The Director of Customer Success comes somewhere in the middle of the corporate ladder. Mostly they report to the Vice President of Customer Success or the Chief Customer Officer.

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Amity

JULY 28, 2014

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? A 5% reduction in the customer defection rate can increase profits by 5 – 95% – Bain & Company. Customer success doesn’t just happen.

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ChurnZero

JULY 9, 2020

But if you’re like most companies, when it comes to attracting your customers, the only thing your marketing’s dropping is the ball. Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting? Sure, you won customers over to get the initial purchase, but what about your post-sale courting?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At such times, CCO is the only leader who has to bear the brunt; after all, customer success is at an adolescence phase! Due to this very reason, it becomes extremely difficult for the CCOs to pitch budget ideas for customer success successfully. . The CCO’s guide to winning budget for customer success.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Amity had the good fortune of sitting down with a pioneer in Customer Success, Paul Teshima the original SVP of Customer Success (circa 2005) at Eloqua – now the Founder and CEO of Nudge Software , to talk about demonstrating the need for Customer Success. Here are the “aha!” We don’t think so.

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